Spectrum Travel

For those who no longer have the disposable income that they used to have, but don’t want to give up their annual holiday, summer home swaps is the ideal answer to the dilemma. This is where you, via a recognised website, get in contact with someone either in the UK or abroad and effectively swap houses for the duration of your holiday. As you would expect in the current economic clime, this is growing quickly in popularity. (more…)

The city of Angels is one of those places that you can spend weeks in and not see everything, so if you only have a limited time here, say 48 hours or so, making the most out of this short time is vital. While most guides are for tourists who are spending quite a while here, the tips that follow are very much aimed at the short term visitor, and are a pretty good guide to seeing a lot in a short period of time, and you can adjust the itinerary to suit you best. (more…)

When the mobile phone phenomenon was in its infancy, we were loathe to take our phones abroad due to the enormous bills we would get on our return with ridiculous roaming charges. Thankfully now that we have smartphones and Wi-Fi we can take our phones with us and benefit from all their features without the fear of a bill dropping through our letterbox and landing with an almighty thump.

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